Terms of Use

The following terms and conditions govern the use of GAQM^® Courses and its content as published on GAQM.ORG Website. By using the Site and/or any information, content or materials made available on the Website, you irrevocably agree that such use is subject to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, you may not use the Site.

Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)^®, expressly reserves the right to modify the Terms of Use at any time in its sole discretion, and without giving notice to you, by including such alteration and/or modification in these Terms of Use. Any continued usage by you of the Site after the posting of such modified Terms of Use shall be deemed to indicate your irrevocable agreement to such modified Terms of Use. Accordingly, if at any point of time you do not agree to be subject to any modified Terms of Use, you may no longer use the Site.

Site Content

Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)^® Content: Except as may be otherwise noted, the information, materials (including, without limitation, HTML, text, audio, video, white papers, press releases, data sheets, product descriptions, software and FAQs and other content) available on or from this website (collectively, “Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)^® Content”) are the copyrighted works of Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)^® and its licensors/associated authors, and Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)^® and its licensors/ associated authors expressly retain all right title and interest in and to the Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)^® As Content, including, without limitation, all intellectual property rights therein and thereto. Except as expressly permitted in these Terms of Use, any unauthorised usage of the Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)^® Content by anybody who is outside Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)’s Management or anywhere outside Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)^® website or event supported by Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)^®, will be treated as the violation of copyrights and/or other applicable laws.

Third Party Content: In addition to Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)^® Content, the Site may contain information and materials provided to Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)^® by third parties (collectively called as “Third Party Content”). Third Party Content is the copyrighted work of its owner, which expressly retains all right title and interest in and to the Third Party Content, including, without limitation, all intellectual property rights therein and thereto. In addition to being subject to these Terms of Use, Third Party Content may also be subject to different and/or additional terms of use and/or privacy policies of such third parties. Please contact Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)^® Management or appropriate third party for further information regarding any such different and/or additional terms of use applicable to Third Party Content.

Limited Usage of Site Content License: Except as provided in Section 1.4 below, Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)^® grants you the limited, revocable, non-transferable, non-exclusive right to use the Site and the associated Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)^® Content and Third Party Content (collectively, “Site Content”) by displaying the Site Content on your computer, and downloading and printing pages from the Site under the condition that (i) such activity is solely for your personal, education or other non-commercial use, (ii) you do not modify or prepare derivative works from the Site Content, (iii) you do not obscure, alter or remove any notice of copyright set forth on any Site pages or Site Content, (iv) you do not otherwise reproduce, re-distribute or publicly display any of the Site Content and (v) you do not copy any Site Content to any other media or other storage format.

User Content: If you elect to display, post, submit or otherwise make available to others, on the Site any content or works of authorship, including, without limitation, images, software, audio files, text, or any other materials (collectively, “User Content”), you hereby grant to Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)^® a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide, non-exclusive right and license, including the right to grant sub licenses to third parties, to use, reproduce, publicly display, publicly perform, prepare derivative works from and distribute such User Content, for any purpose. In addition, you hereby irrevocably represent and warrant to Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)^® that (i) you have all necessary power, authority, right, title and/or licenses to grant to Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)^® the foregoing right and license and (ii) the posting, submission, display by you of User Content on the Site, and the exercise by Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)^® of the foregoing license does not and will not (1) violate any law or (2) infringe any intellectual property right of any third party. You hereby irrevocably agree to indemnify, defend and hold Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)^®, its affiliates, directors, officers, employees and agents harmless from and against any and all loss, costs, damages, liabilities and expenses arising out of or related to any third party claim resulting from a breach of the foregoing representations and warranties.

Software: To the extent that the Site contains Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)^® Content or Third Party Content that is software available for download (“Software”), such Software is subject to, and your use of such Software is governed by, an applicable license agreement (each a “License Agreement”) accompanying, provided with, linked to or embedded in, such Software. You may not use any Software unless you first read and agree to all of the terms and conditions of the applicable License Agreement. ANY SOFTWARE AVAILABLE ON THE SITE IS WARRANTED, IF AT ALL, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE APPLICABLE LICENSE AGREEMENT. EXCEPT AS MAY BE EXPRESSLY SET FORTH IN THE APPLICABLE LICENSE AGREEMENT, OR TO THE EXTENT NOT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)^® EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL IMPLIED OR STATUTORY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.

Trademarks: All trademarks, service marks and logos included on the Site (“Marks”) are the property of Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)^® or third parties, and you may not use such Marks without the express, prior written consent of Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)^® or the applicable third party.

Monitoring of Site Content: Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)^® may, but is not obligated to, monitor Site Content, User Content and your use of the Site. Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)^® reserves the right to accept, reject or modify any Site Content or User Content, but assumes no liability based on its acceptance, rejection, modification or failure to modify any Site Content or User Content.

Site Usage

Submission of User Content: In connection with your use of the Site, you agree not to submit any User Content which (i) is unlawful, (ii) violates any right of publicity or invades the privacy of others, (iii) constitutes obscene, pornographic, indecent, profane or otherwise objectionable material, (iv) is discriminatory, hateful or bigoted toward, or abusive of, any group or individual, (v) is libelous or defamatory or (vi) violates any applicable law or government regulation.

Prohibited Conduct: You may not use the Site to post, transmit or link to (i) any advertisement, promotional materials or solicitation related to any product or service that is competitive with Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)^® products or services or (ii) software or programs which contain any harmful code, including, but not limited to, viruses, worms, time bombs or Trojan horses. You may not deploy to the Site any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other application designed to retrieve, index, “data mine,” information from the Site.

Registered Users: If you become a registered user of the Site in order to gain access to support or other limited access parts of the Site, you agree (i) that the information you provide to Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)^® in connection with your registration will be current, complete and accurate, (ii) not to choose a user name that violates any law or the intellectual property rights of others, or is offensive; provided that Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)^® reserves the right to reject the use of any user name for any reason or no reason, (iii) not to transfer, sell, convey or assign the right to use the Site to any third party without the prior written consent of Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)^® and (iv) not to permit any third party to use your user name and password to access the Site. You further agree that you are responsible for the conduct of any party that uses your account, whether or not authorized by you, and for any breach of the security of the Site related to the use of your user name and/or password.

Indemnification: You hereby irrevocably agree to indemnify, defend and hold Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)^®, its affiliates, directors, officers, employees and agents harmless from and against any and all losses, costs, damages, liabilities and expenses (including attorneys’ fees) arising out of or related to you use of the Site.

Export Control: You hereby represent and warrant that (i) you understand and acknowledge that some Site Content may be subject to export, re-export and import restrictions Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)^® under applicable law, (ii) you will not use the Site or any Site Content in a manner that violates the local Export Administration laws in India/United Kingdom and the regulations of the Department of Commerce in India/United Kingdom and (iii) you are not located in, under the control of, or a national or resident of any country to which India/United Kingdom have embargoed goods.

Linked Websites

The Site may contain links to other websites that are not owned or operated by Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)^®, and you agree that Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)^® provides links to such websites solely as a convenience and has no responsibility for the content or availability of such websites, and that Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)^® does not endorse such websites or any products or services associated therewith. Your use of such websites will be subject to the terms of use applicable to each such website.